Can We Predict Body Height from Segmental Bone Length Measurements? A Study of 3,647 Children

Standing Height and its Estimation Utilizing Foot Length Measurements in Adolescents from Western Region in Kosovo

“…In parallel, it is important to emphasize that the individual and ethnic variations referring to standing height and its association with foot length might vary from ethnic group to ethnic group as well as race to race, because the racial and ethnic differences are affective on these measures and reduce the possibility of generalizing (cited in Bjelica et al, 2012). This fact confirms the study conducted by Chinese authors (Cheng et al, 1998) who confirmed a very high linear correlation between standing height and foot length in both genders, as well as in another study which confirmed that foot length can explain up to 77% variations in standing height (cited in Uhrova et al, 2015), while the research study conducted by Uhrova and her collaborators (Uhrova et al, 2015) shows significant correlation between standing height and all measure anthropometric parame-ters in both genders of Slovak population. The highest correlation coefficient in this population was found for foot length in males (r=0.71) as well as in females (r=0.63).…”

Abnormal anthropometric measurements and growth pattern in male adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

“…In girls with AIS, stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed several significant independent anthropometric variables that predict curve severity, including arm span, sitting height, log-transformed BMI and age (but not body weight) [5]. In contrast, in this study, a multivariate regression analysis showed that body weight and chronological age serve as independent predictors of curve magnitude in male AIS patients.…”

Ulna length to predict height in English and Portuguese patient populations

“…For example, different equations have been established for predicting stature from knee height in white and black populations (Chunlea and Guo, 1992), Japanese (Myers et al, 1994;Knous and Arisawa, 2002), Hispanics (Palloni and Guend, 2005) and Thai people (Cheng et al, 2001). As ulna length-height relationships have also been established in different populations in different ways, care should be taken about extrapolation from children (Valk, 1971;Cheng et al, 1998;Gauld et al, 2004;Smith, 2007) to adults (Elia M (chairman & editor), 2003;Agnihotri et al, 2009;Auyeung et al, 2009), and vice versa, between different ethnic groups, (Joshi et al, 1964;Elia M (chairman & editor), 2003;Gauld et al, 2004;Auyeung et al, 2009), between different measurement techniques (Munoz et al, 2001;Elia M (chairman & editor), 2003;Gauld et al, 2004;Zhou et al, 2007) and between healthy subjects and those with marked osteoporosis or scoliosis. In one study involving community dwelling older Chinese (65-98 years) attending an osteoporosis centre, predictions of height based on ulna length was found to be comparable to that obtained from fibula length.…”